What Atrios said

Everyone needs to calm down and stop taking everything so seriously. I’ve been blogging a long time and I’ve never witnessed anything remotely close to the overall level of anger in the poliblogosphere right now. It’s not healthy or productive. The blogosphere is quickly flipping from being one of the best things to happen to modern day politics to one of the absolute worst.

RELATED: This podcast featuring Blue Gal and Driftglass addressing progressive concerns about the current political environment was a very enjoyable listen. They make some great and very reasonable points. A wonderful (and, at times, funny) discussion and a great antidote to a sucky week. p.s. Who knew Driftglass was Joe Conason?

That whole article you link to in the post is about the divisions over Barack Obama, not some larger philosophical issue—and I would submit that Obama’s deeply disappointing first year in office has produced two groups among his previous supporters, those who are still deluded about him, and those who have become aware that he’s just another cynical, sellout politician—and a typical lousy sucker Democrat at that, always trying to accommodate Republicans like they are decent and reasonable (and looking weak in the process). These divisions in the leftwingblogs will lessen more and more as people just admit that as much as we supported him (and though he is still better than the other horrible choices in the 2008 primaries), many were just taking their hatred of Bush and his policies and acting out on it in a less than rational way (in retrospect). Obama is a lightweight and a fool, and I’ve got to say it’s very hard to admit that. But let’s not delude ourselves for the sake of politeness!